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No'. 237,559. Patented Feb. 8, I881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARSHALL o. LEFFERTS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., AND WILLIAM B. CARPEN- TEE, FNEWARK, N. J., ASSIGNORS TO cELLULon) COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 237,559, dated February8, 1881.

' Application filed January 7, 1881. I (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, MARSHALL 0. LEE- FERTS, of New York city, county,and State, and WILLIAM B. CARPENTER, of Newark, in

the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented a new anduseful Improvement in Celluloid Dolls, of which the following is aspecification.

Our invention relates to the manufacture of dolls, either in whole or inpart, from celluloid, or other compound of pyroxyline, wherein the wholestructure is made of this material, or some part thereof, as that theouter surface may be of celluloid and the inner or an interlining ofsome other material.

The'figure is of a whole doll articulated at various points.

In our manufacture of dolls or dolls heads, We take the pyroxyline inany suitable form for molding into the desired shape, which may be doneby any process that will put the material into the form required, sothat the celluloid shall appear on the outer surface. This may be doneby molding the dolls in sections, and then putting the parts together,making a whole; or by molding them from tubes by a process of pressinginto complete form by devices and mechanism for which a patent wasallowed July 26, 1880, to one of the present applicants, (Garpenter,) orby some other process accomplishing the same purpose.

The figure shows a complete form articulated, making a flexible doll,-or we may make 2. A doll consisting wholly or in part of cel luloid orother compound of pyroxyline.

3. A head or other parts of a doll the surface of which is coated withcelluloid or other compound of pyroxyline.

4. The doll 'or part of a doll made of material substantially asdescribed, and molded into form in separate sections, substantially asset forth.

5. The doll or parts of a (1011 made of mate rials substantially asdescribed, and molded whole, substantially as and for the purposespecified.

MARSHALL (J. LEFFERTS. WILLIAM B. CARPENTER. Witnesses:

HoRAcE HARRIS, GEORGE B. ADAMS.

MANUFACTURING

